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Marijata Daniel-Echols on Working With Program Partners

My name is Marijata Daniel-Echols. I am Director of Research at the HighScope Educational Research Foundation. HighScope is best known for our work in preschool curriculum development and for the Perry Preschool Study. Our Research Department conducts evaluations of early childhood programs (e.g. state funded preschool initiatives) and general research on early childhood theory and …

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CAP Week: Kirsten Rewey on Developing a Research Design With College Access Programs

My name is Kirsten Rewey and I am a Senior Research and Evaluation Associate at ACET, Inc. Two years ago ACET was selected to provide evaluation services for a federally-funded Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) implemented by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (OHE). As part of the services, OHE …

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Cheri Hoffman on Youth-Led Evaluation

1 Comment / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / July 14, 2010 December 21, 2011

I’m Cheri Hoffman, a program evaluator with Centerstone Research Institute in Nashville, Tennessee, evaluating two System of Care grants for children’s mental health. The values of a System of Care demand that the entire process, including the evaluation, be youth-guided. We recently trained selected members of the program’s youth council in research and program evaluation …

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Sally Honeycutt on Developing Logic Models

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / July 12, 2010 June 29, 2010

My name is Sally Honeycutt, and I am the Evaluation Team Lead for the Emory Prevention Research Center (EPRC). The EPRC primarily works in rural Southwest Georgia and focuses on strategies to make rural home and neighborhood environments more supportive of cancer prevention behaviors, including physical activity and healthy eating. We also provide technical assistance …

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Jim Burdine on Presenting Community Assessment Data to its Community – What to Present

2 Comments / Behavioral Health, Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Health Evaluation / July 8, 2010 July 27, 2010

I’m Jim Burdine, Assistant Dean for Public Health Practice and Co-PI/Director of a Prevention Research Center at the School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M. Over the last 30 years I’ve used community health status assessment as both a community organizing tool and intervention planning tool. In more than 200 different communities (including multiple iterations …

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Kim Sabo Flores on Engaging Youth in Evaluation

4 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Youth Focused Evaluation / June 30, 2010 December 21, 2011

Hello fellow evaluators!! My name is Kim Sabo Flores and I am the creator of Evaluation Access, an evaluation capacity building organization that serves non-profit staff and youth participants. I began my evaluation career with a focus on engaging children and youth in evaluation but soon realized that adult staff also needed support. Over the …

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Sophie Alvarez on Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation / June 27, 2010 June 21, 2010

Hi, my name is Sophie Alvarez and I work in the Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) as a consultant in monitoring and evaluation. During Phase I of the CPWF, we began developing an evaluation and monitoring methodology where a group of project researchers and some of their stakeholders get together and map the …

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Susan Kistler on the Democratization of Data

Leave a Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Integrating Technology into Evaluation / June 19, 2010 June 24, 2010

My name is Susan Kistler, AEA’s Executive Director, and I contribute each Saturday’s aea365 post. Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of speaking about the democratization of data at the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute. While a candidate, US President Barak Obama committed to putting government data online in universally accessible formats (see here). At …

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Beverly Parsons on Communities of Learning, Inquiry, and Practice (CLIPs)

1 Comment / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Organizational Learning and Evaluation Capacity Building / June 1, 2010 May 27, 2010

My name is Beverly Parsons and I’m the executive director of InSites, a non-profit research, evaluation, and planning organization. We use a systems orientation and conduct evaluations related to education, social services, community change, and health. I’m an AEA board member. I have a tip about how to build evaluation capacity through a type of …

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Michael Quinn Patton on Using Children’s Stories to Open Up Evaluation Dialogues

3 Comments / Collaborative, Participatory and Empowerment Evaluation, Evaluation Use, Teaching of Evaluation / April 30, 2010 May 2, 2010

Greetings colleagues. My moniker is Michael Quinn Patton and I do independent evaluation consulting under the name Utilization-Focused Evaluation, which just happens also to be the title of my main evaluation book, now in its 4th edition. I am a former AEA president. One of the challenges I’ve faced over the years, as many of …

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